“…And he [David Cameron] will offer an olive branch to his critics by avoiding Parliamentary legislation on the controversial High Speed 2 rail link and watering down plans to reform the House of Lords. “

“But there is a snag! It just ain’t green! The route means that 21 irreplacable ancient woods are going to be destroyed. These are valuable woods, part of ancient woodland which covers just 2% of our land, and once gone, they are never able to be replaced.”

Although Gus only explicitly mentions High Speed Rail once, a number of the rules for good policy making are highly relevant for HS2 – but unfortunately are being ignored by the Department for Transport.

I know that but my point was that a senior MP doesn’t nor have I heard the BBC/Sky or most of the written media report it—they need to raise their game as after all we are talking in excess of an additional 36 billion plus of debt!